Oh! Thank you AYC
choir that was what we
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needed to hear right
now. Amen. I wanna warn
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you if you pray that
prayer they just sang,
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you are in for the
adventure of your life.
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I don't suppose there
is a more radical prayer
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that a young adult
could pray or a not so young
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adult could pray, as
that prayer "here am I,
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send me." And I'm
sitting out, I am sitting
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out where you are
right now this morning just
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getting blessed to
the tips of my toes by all
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these testimonies
going on up here and I'm
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thinking to myself
can you believe this,
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12 months ago a young
adult hardly just a babe
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in Christ Jesus, his
name I think is Steve,
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12 months ago. He
goes out in the afternoon
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door knocking or as it
turns out window knocking.
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He goes out in the
afternoon, knocks on
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that window and
this young adult who
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doesn't know God, has
no clue about the origin
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of this universe or
the destiny of humankind,
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this young adult
named, was it Mel, Hal, I mean
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Hal, Hal, Hal. Hal gets
to window too late, they
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go away, but the
spirit of the living God comes
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down upon Hal and
moves on his young
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heart and says chase
the boys, just chase the
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boys, puts on his best
running shoes, gets out
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there and bumps into
Steve. Now Steve has just
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come to Jesus, he is
going out for the first
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time door knocking,
he met Hal, Hal engages a
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brief conversation
and 12 months later Steve
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and Hal both are
radical young disciples of the
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Lord Jesus Christ.
You can't believe it,
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you can't make up
scripts like this.
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Hollywood could not
design stories like this.
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There is a supernatural
threat through everything
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we're hearing
here, that's why when you
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pray the prayer
that the choir just sang,
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"here am I send me."
That is, that is such a
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bold and radical
prayer, you will never ever be
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the same again. Oh!
I praise God for AYC.
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A generation of
young, I don't believe
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coincidentally being
raised up Johnny, at this
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very moment in human
history, God is preparing
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to storm this
planet one last time.
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We'll talk about
Pentecost II in just a moment.
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I just sit back and
I say thank you Jesus.
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What do you say?
Amen. Amen and Amen.
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Last night we touched
opening night together,
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some of you are
here for the first time,
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opening night together
we considered, we pondered,
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we prayed for the
outpouring of the Holy Spirit.
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And we found out, we
found out that if you
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take the Pentecost
prayer seriously and
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you pray for the
outpouring of the Holy Spirit,
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you are not praying
for war and spiritual
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fuzzies, you are not,
you are not praying for,
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for ecstatic utterances,
you are praying one prayer.
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When you pray for the
filling of the Holy Spirit
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and I hope you'll
join me in praying that,
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Karen and I are praying
it. The team is 70 senior
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leaders in the
Pioneer Memorial Church,
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which I pastor on the
campus of Andrews University.
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We have been praying for
40 days, the first 40 days
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of 2010, praying
night and day for the
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outpouring of the Holy
Spirit, but here is the
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point when the Holy
Spirit gets poured out
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and you're
baptized in the spirit.
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You will be filled
with what aspect of God.
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What aspect of God
you would be filled with?
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What aspect of God
you would be filled with?
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Passion. His passion for life.
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His passion for
what? For the lost.
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For the lost, one
passion God has, that's why
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I can't sleep at
night. Sydney is up all night,
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God's up all
night, and boy with those
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fireworks last night
everybody was up all night.
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I thought only
in Michigan, we have
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thunderstorms like
that. I'm telling you what
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Karen and I standing
this dormitory over here,
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lovely dormitory
right across the street.
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One of those was
straight overhead
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because you
can't go one lollipop,
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two lollipop, it just went blip.
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And I kept thinking,
I kept thinking of Jesus
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words when the son
of man comes, it will be
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like a lightning. That
crashes from the east to
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the west. Boy, I want
Jesus to come, don't you?
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I want Jesus to
come, don't you? Amen.
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Yeah, there is a work
to do. We got to have his
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passion, so
we're praying for that.
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Baptism of the Holy
Spirit, then last night
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we noticed that the,
that the church in the Book
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of Acts is steeped in
prayer. Our motto at the
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Pioneer Memorial
Church begins with
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these words
forward on our knees.
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We believe like you do
that prayer is a secret to
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every thing the
church does. And that's why
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I was so pleased when
I got to Melbourne and
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I saw this word go.
Well, I knew that it was
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gonna be a go
conference. I mean everybody who
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knows anything
about AYC knows, it's a go
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conference. But, look
how they pictured the go.
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Look at this guys, you
see these human beings,
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these young adult
radical disciples of Jesus.
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Do you see what
they're doing? They are on
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their knees, forward
on their knees, that's how
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we go, we pray, and
so last night I challenge
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those of you who are
here today for the first
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time last night, I
challenged everybody
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here to begin
praying for five lost people.
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And I wanna give you
two testimonies right now.
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God heard last night
and get this, if you ever
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want it before, if
the promise in Isaiah 65
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verse 24 is true,
before you call I will answer
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and while you are
yet speaking I will here.
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If you had a doubt
before regarding the
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veracity of Isaiah 65
verse 24, let me tell you
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two testimonies.
Sarah comes up to me
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afterwards she says
pastor, pastor I just
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wrote down a name,
was looking for one more
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name to add to my list
of 5 lost people and as
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soon as I wrote
the name down the one
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I wrote down stood up
and came forward in the
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altar call, can you believe
that, isn't that something.
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Obviously God knew
and he was responding
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in advance to a
prayer that hadn't even been
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prayed yet. Some
of you are praying
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for your door knocking
this afternoon, guess what?
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The Holy Spirit
has already gone before
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you, everything will
be in readiness because
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there are other house
waiting for you to come
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today, who in 12
months will be standing
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up here and saying I
didn't believe in God
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before, I now
believe him, and I serve the
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Lord Jesus Christ,
Amen. Amen. Holy Spirit's
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gone ahead of you
already, don't you worry.
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You're a little bit
nervous, hey, welcome
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to the club. It's
okay to be nervous.
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It keeps your mind alert.
Somebody's waiting for you.
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God can hardly wait
for you to get on that bus
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and get going this
afternoon, alright.
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So, that's there, so
before coming up here
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I had to tell Russell,
I said Russell isn't it
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something two
years ago you were even a
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Christian, two years
ago and now you've been to
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Fiji and you conducted
youth, I preach, I can't
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believe this Russell.
Nice to meet you, I like
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that beard by the
way, makes you look very
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much like a
philosopher, so keep that beard.
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He said, hey pastor, I
got to tell you this last
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night I'm writing
down those names and as
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I write the fourth
name down, the one whose
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name I put down when
you said, I'm not gonna
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extend this call, I'm
not gonna extend this call
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and then he said I
wrote that name and that
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person stood up and
came forward to be baptized.
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Hallelujah. Guys, you
think this is just a little
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bit of a AYC hype, no.
It's the Holy Spirit, who
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says you got to
believe me, you pray, I am
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power, because it's
my passion to seek and
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save the lost for
Calvary is all about.
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So, we are doing the
right thing, praise God.
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I want to pray with
you in just a moment, but
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I wanna remind you
there are three young
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adults mentioned
by name in the Book of
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Acts, three of
them, they're, they're
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hundreds and
thousands of them in the Book of
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Acts, we just
don't have their names.
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We can surmise as the
Pastor Garry suggested
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that even the apostles,
the disciples were many
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of them young
adults, John was probably 21,
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22, 23 at the max, John
boy. That would be a young
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adult now wouldn't it,
ends up being the great
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Apostle, the beloved
Apostle. But, we know three of
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them in the Book
of Acts by name we met
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one of them last
night, her name means Rose,
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Rhoda and she was
at prayer meeting.
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A good place for
young adults to be found in
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prayer meeting. There
is another young adult
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that we are not
even gonna talk about.
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We are not gonna
meet him here because we
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don't have the time,
but his name is John Mark.
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Young as they come, I
want you to know about
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John Mark before we
go to the third young
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adult, who is the
theme of our, our teaching
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today. I want you
to know about John Mark
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because John Mark
crashed and burned.
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Got all excited after
an AYC conference, said
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I'm going, I'm gonna
serve the Lord Jesus Christ
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got two weeks into his
mission and said I'm out
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here, I'm an abject
failure, and he quit,
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went home. I want
you to know about John
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Mark because some of
you have felt like quitting.
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Some of you are going
to feel like quitting.
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You are gonna feel
I just can't cut it.
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I want you to
know about John Mark
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because God,
when he starts on you,
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Philippines 1:6, my
God, who was begun a
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good work and you
will bring it to completion
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by the day of Christ
Jesus. When God begins
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something in you, he
will not quit until it's done.
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Romans 11:29, both the
gifts and the calling of
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God are irrevocable.
If God had called you,
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you can never
get out of that call.
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You can run like
Joanna, but you can't hide.
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God knows where you
are, he has got a big fish
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just designed
for the likes of you.
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So, I hope you taste
good. God kept his eye on that
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boy that crashed and
burned said John Mark
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what a failure. Paul
is saying, you know I'm
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an evangelist. I
can't have whips on my team,
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uncle Barnabas, so
you can take your nephew,
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he is never on my team
again. Adios and Paul's
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gone, he grabbed
Silas and God doubles his
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money over that little conflict.
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It's okay to have
conflict in the family of
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God because out of
the conflict God doubled
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his money. He got
twice as much now.
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And John Mark goes
back, the tail tucked
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between his legs,
goes back to Jerusalem.
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His mother owned the
upper room by the way.
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So, John Mark
hung around Jesus, his
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mother owned the upper
room and big old Peter,
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big old Peter put
his arm, that burly
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fisherman arm around
John Mark and said boy
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stay close to me, I
think you're a diamond in the
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rough and O boy was he
ever a shining diamond,
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wrote the very first
gospel. The Bible says it's the
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gospel according to
Mark, but we know the
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truth today it's the
gospel according to Peter.
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Peter told, because
all the eyewitness stories
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that only Peter was in
on. Peter told Mark the story.
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And Mark
dutifully wrote it down and
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finally 20 years
later, Paul says, oh, and by
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the way PS, get a
hold of my boy John,
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I love that boy.
So, if you crashed and
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burned, you get
another chance today.
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Here am I, send
me, God hasn't finished
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with you. He's just
getting started with you,
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you have another
chance today, I'm gonna
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make an altar call at
the end of this, at the end
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of this teaching. And
you'll have to chance to
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respond, to give
your life back to God,
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not just spiritually,
but physically put your
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body on the frontline
of God's mission again.
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Let's pray together
before we meet young
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adult number 3.
Dear God, Oh! It's hot in
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Sydney, thank you
Lord for summer time.
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And it is warm here
and sometimes when it gets
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warm our eyelids get
a little heavy, so Lord
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two prayers, keep
the preacher and the
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listeners wide awake
in the spirit and prayer
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number 2. Dear
Father, for the John Marks and
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the Rhodas and
the young adult we are
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about to meet. For
the Johns, and the James,
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and the Marys, and the
Marthas, for all of them
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who are here by
divine appointment, here
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am I send me, when
that appeal comes may
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they say I will
follow you, I will follow you
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my savior, where so
ever your feet may drive.
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We listen now Father
teach us the scripture
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we pray in Jesus name,
amen. Open your Bible with me
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please today's
teaching Pentecost II.
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Laptop, cell phone,
Oh! boy did I get corrected
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last week, Oh!
Pastor what is a cell phone.
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Don't you know
it's a mobile, you say
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mobile? Mobile.
That's what it is, a laptop,
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a cell phone and a
plane ticket, what's that all
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about, open your
Bible to young adult number
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3 open your Bible
please to Acts chapter 20.
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The reason this young
adult gets in the Bible,
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Hallelujah and there
are two lessons, they are
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two messages that
will come out of this
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teaching today. Acts
chapter 20, the reason
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he gets in the story
at all is because of what
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happen to him
when he was in church.
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I'm keeping an eye
on you very closely now
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because what happen
to him, could happen to
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you and if I see
it happening I'm gonna
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call you by name and
it will be like this, hey
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you, alright if you
start to nod and follow
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asleep like
this young adult did.
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The reason we know
this young adult is
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because he slept in
church. Yeah, that's true,
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isn't that right?
We know him by name,
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his name means
fortunate. He went by the name
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his friends called him Eutychus.
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And we know him because
he fell asleep in church.
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Somebody once said
that if you, if you took
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everybody who fell
asleep in church, took
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everybody who fell
asleep in church and
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you line them all up
end to end, they'd be a
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whole lot more
comfortable. So, this is about a
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young adult who slept
in church and that's why
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we know him. There
is a message, there is a
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message to the church
and there is a message
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to the young by that
falling asleep and we
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wanna note it together.
Acts chapter 20, verse 7,
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I've got the changer
right here, Acts chapter
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20 verse 7. I'll put
it on the screen for you,
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you have your Bible
you read it from whatever
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translation you brought
along today; on the first
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day of the week we came
together to break bread.
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Paul spoke to the
people and, because he
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intended to leave
the next day, kept on it,
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this is a farewell
service, because he
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intended to leave
the next day, he kept on
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talking until
midnight. Now I need to get the
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pause button right
here. Because some people
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read those words
first day of the week, aha,
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they're having a
Sunday worship service that's
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clearly what's going
on, Jesus rose on Sunday,
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so they're having a
Sunday worship service.
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Wow! Timeout,
timeout, I need to remind you
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that when Luke is
writing this, the physician,
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because he says we
came together, so we
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have a physician, who
is an eyewitness about,
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of what is about to
happen. When Luke writes this,
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he is using one of
two reckonings for time.
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One could be the
Jewish reckoning of
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time and the
Jewish reckoning goes from
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what to what?
From sunset to sunset.
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He can be the Jewish
reckoning of time, so
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that would be if it's,
if it's the dark part of the
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first day of the
week, do you know when
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that would be. That
would be Saturday night,
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in fact the old New
English Bible for the
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British Christians put it
that way on Saturday night,
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see that; on
Saturday night in our assembly
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for the breaking of
bread, Paul, who was to
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leave the next day
addressed them, and
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went on speaking until
midnight. It's a farewell
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service, it's not
a worship service,
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it's a farewell
service. But, wait a minute,
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Dwight, what if he is
using Roman reckoning.
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If he is using
the Roman reckoning of
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time from midnight to
midnight then it has to
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be midnight, just the
dark part is coming up
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to midnight that's Sunday night.
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Either way you have it
it's not a Sunday morning
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worship service, true?
Yeah, it's a farewell service.
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They've already
worshiped on the Sabbath,
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but Paul says
listen I'm gonna be gone,
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I'm gonna be gone and
I don't know if I'm ever
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coming back again and
I'm gonna walk across,
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I'm gonna walk across
the Isthmus, first thing
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in the early morning,
so let me just talk and so
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Paul begins to preach
on the Lord Jesus Christ.
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How do we know that
Paul preached on Jesus
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that night because
Paul wrote in First
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Corinthians 2:2,
I determine to know
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nothing among you
except Jesus Christ
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and him crucified.
So, we know that Paul
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preached on the cross. I
got to take this off guys,
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thank you for your permission.
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We know Paul preached
on the cross. He always
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preached on Jesus
and the cross. Jesus said
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I, if I'm lifted up,
I'll draw everybody to me.
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If anybody response
today in this appeal
00:17:35.83\00:17:38.20
that's about to be
made, in just a few moments
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it will be because
Jesus is the drawing power.
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We know that, so it's a
farewell service, either
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way, yeah, but doesn't
it say here they were, they
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broke bread, yes it
does. Acts 2:46 says they
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broke bread daily.
So, you can't use breaking
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bread as a day that
designates the sacred
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Holy rest day of God, no
it doesn't make sense at all.
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It could be a
communion service, it could be a
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social, we don't know
because that phrase can
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be used both ways,
but either way it's not a
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worship service,
that's the point.
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So, on Saturday night,
in our assembly for the
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breaking of bread,
Paul who was to leave the
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next day he addresses everybody.
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Alright, let's read
verse 8, now Luke is an eye
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witness, I need to
tell you Luke says; there
00:18:19.70\00:18:21.33
were many lamps in
the upstairs room where we
00:18:21.33\00:18:23.43
were meeting. Now we
are not talking about
00:18:23.43\00:18:25.60
little battery
operated lamps, we are talking
00:18:25.60\00:18:27.63
about like tiki
torches burning in that room.
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And when you burn a
torch, it produces fumes
00:18:33.13\00:18:37.16
and it gives off
smoke. There is nothing worse
00:18:38.30\00:18:42.80
than being in a
room full of smoke.
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It just, it gets in your
nostrils, you look at the
00:18:45.20\00:18:47.16
other person, you
see the smoke in her
00:18:47.16\00:18:49.03
nostrils and say
doesn't she look funny not
00:18:49.03\00:18:50.46
knowing that you have
it all through your own
00:18:50.46\00:18:51.73
nostrils as well.
You just breathe it in.
00:18:51.73\00:18:53.60
So, if you don't
wanna have smoke up your
00:18:54.80\00:18:56.40
nostrils and the room
is filled with bodies and
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it's hot and you're a
bright young adult, you
00:18:59.33\00:19:01.90
are gonna find a place
to stay in the meeting,
00:19:01.90\00:19:04.53
but out of the sweat,
the smell, and the smoke.
00:19:04.53\00:19:09.00
There were many
lamps in the upstairs room
00:19:10.66\00:19:12.20
where we were
meeting. Seated in a window,
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smart boy, leave it
to young adults to be the
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creative edge. Seated
in a window was a young
00:19:17.76\00:19:22.06
man named Eutychus.
His name means fortunate.
00:19:22.06\00:19:25.00
Oh! He is fortunate
with that seat, that
00:19:25.00\00:19:27.16
Saturday night.
Seated in a window was a
00:19:27.16\00:19:29.46
young man named
Eutychus, who was
00:19:29.46\00:19:31.20
sinking Oh! Boy here
it goes, who was sinking
00:19:31.20\00:19:35.26
into a deep sleep as
Paul talked on and on.
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Now preachers find
great comfort and hope
00:19:43.10\00:19:45.53
in that on and on.
What you find is drowsiness
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and sleep. We go to
the same text for two very
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different reasons.
Paul is going on and on, oh,
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I'm thinking, I wanna
tell you this about Jesus.
00:19:55.36\00:19:57.06
Let me share this
story, I just came back from
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this trip, let me tell
you and he is going on,
00:19:59.16\00:20:01.06
anybody here have
questions let me take a
00:20:01.06\00:20:02.60
little break right
now, good questions, Q&A
00:20:02.60\00:20:04.80
time, now let me
tell you. Oh! This reminds
00:20:04.80\00:20:06.83
me, on and on and
poor Eutychus, have you
00:20:06.83\00:20:10.53
ever watched people
sleep in church it's
00:20:10.53\00:20:12.46
embarrassing for them.
Because of where I stand
00:20:12.46\00:20:15.80
every Sabbath morning, I
get a special vantage point.
00:20:15.80\00:20:18.03
We have one of our
professors at Andrews
00:20:18.76\00:20:20.23
University, true
story and this guy is such a
00:20:20.23\00:20:22.03
cut up that I decided
I will call him out by
00:20:22.50\00:20:25.90
name in this big
university church and
00:20:25.90\00:20:27.60
when he was nodding off, I
said isn't that right Woody?
00:20:27.60\00:20:29.76
When you watch a
person fall asleep you know
00:20:34.93\00:20:36.93
that they do everything
they can to hide it from
00:20:36.93\00:20:38.80
everyone around them
and it is so dump to try
00:20:38.80\00:20:40.86
to hide because we all
know what you're hiding.
00:20:40.86\00:20:42.46
So, don't even try,
just go ahead and lay down
00:20:43.20\00:20:45.50
on the seat beside you,
put your head on the lap
00:20:45.50\00:20:47.10
and somebody will
stroke your forehead.
00:20:47.63\00:20:49.50
We'll wake you up when
the sermon is over alright.
00:20:49.50\00:20:51.70
So, seated in a
window was a young man named
00:20:52.36\00:20:55.20
Eutychus, who was
sinking into a deep sleep
00:20:55.20\00:20:57.20
as Paul talked on and
on. But, you know something,
00:20:57.20\00:21:00.06
you keep catching
it, you keep catching it,
00:21:00.06\00:21:01.73
but eventually it
will go all the way down,
00:21:01.73\00:21:04.30
your head I'm talking
about. It goes all the way down
00:21:04.30\00:21:07.76
and when you are
balanced in a window
00:21:08.20\00:21:10.50
sill and your head
goes down, you control
00:21:10.50\00:21:16.73
yourself off balance
can't you that's exactly
00:21:16.73\00:21:19.20
what happened, tragic
story, tragic, the young
00:21:19.20\00:21:22.10
adult sleeping in the
window, he goes on and on.
00:21:22.10\00:21:25.10
When he was sound
asleep, he is not hiding
00:21:25.10\00:21:27.33
now because he doesn't
even know he is doing it.
00:21:27.33\00:21:29.03
When he was sound
asleep, he, the young
00:21:29.26\00:21:31.90
adult, fell to the
ground from the third storey
00:21:31.90\00:21:34.46
and they counted the
storeys beginning with
00:21:34.46\00:21:36.23
what we would call
the second, so that's the
00:21:36.23\00:21:38.00
fourth storey, and
he was picked up, what's
00:21:38.00\00:21:40.76
that word, who wrote
the book, a physician,
00:21:40.76\00:21:45.16
this is not, he was
comatose, this is not he
00:21:45.80\00:21:48.20
was unconscious, he
had a brain concussion,
00:21:48.20\00:21:50.83
he is dead. Look
who's there, probably got
00:21:50.83\00:21:54.86
down the stairs ahead
of Paul, took the poles,
00:21:54.86\00:21:56.33
he is dead folks.
And imagine Paul in the
00:21:56.60\00:22:02.80
middle, late night,
there is a scream because
00:22:02.80\00:22:07.63
somebody sees
Eutychus disappear.
00:22:07.63\00:22:09.56
The place goes berserk
and Paul short probably,
00:22:10.06\00:22:14.63
bald headed, heart of
eyesight scholars believe
00:22:14.63\00:22:17.80
has to go downstairs
they're outside, they're
00:22:18.60\00:22:20.40
outside, there is no
stairs inside those homes,
00:22:20.40\00:22:22.46
outside, he gets
down to the bottom, throws
00:22:22.46\00:22:28.36
himself on the young
man, just as Elijah did,
00:22:28.36\00:22:32.03
just as Elisha did,
he throws himself on the
00:22:32.36\00:22:35.43
young man and he
puts his arms around him.
00:22:35.43\00:22:38.50
Boy, that's what we got
to do with young adults,
00:22:39.10\00:22:41.13
just put your arms around them.
00:22:41.13\00:22:42.83
When they fall out,
put your arms around them,
00:22:43.63\00:22:45.93
he puts his arms
around him and he was praying,
00:22:46.30\00:22:50.60
I know he was
praying the whole way down
00:22:50.60\00:22:53.20
those 4 storeys and he
goes "don't be alarmed,
00:22:53.20\00:22:58.53
Hallelujah. He is
alive!' And he was then he
00:22:58.53\00:23:05.66
being the good preacher
that he is went upstairs
00:23:06.56\00:23:09.20
again, broke bread
and ate and after talking
00:23:09.20\00:23:12.06
until sunrise. Because
I had just one more thing
00:23:12.06\00:23:15.40
I want to say and
then I'll let you go.
00:23:15.40\00:23:16.80
You ever heard that
before just one more thing.
00:23:16.80\00:23:19.70
After talking
until daylight, he left.
00:23:20.90\00:23:23.10
And the people took
the young man home alive
00:23:23.10\00:23:26.00
and were greatly
comforted. Hallelujah, Amen.
00:23:26.00\00:23:30.13
There are two messages
in the story and I want
00:23:30.13\00:23:31.96
to share both of them
with you. The first message
00:23:31.96\00:23:34.00
is to the church,
church, we're all church,
00:23:34.83\00:23:38.26
America,
Australia, we're all church.
00:23:38.26\00:23:41.63
Message number one,
there are only two in
00:23:43.00\00:23:45.00
this story, message
number one to the church,
00:23:45.00\00:23:47.50
"quit talking to
yourselves!" I love this church,
00:23:50.13\00:23:56.50
I love the
Seventh-Day Adventist church,
00:23:57.50\00:23:59.43
fifth generation Adventist,
fourth generation preacher.
00:23:59.93\00:24:03.93
I love this church
and so I know this church
00:24:03.93\00:24:06.40
that I love and we
have a proclivity perhaps
00:24:06.40\00:24:08.93
more than any of the
community of faith on
00:24:08.93\00:24:10.93
earth and that is we
love to talk to each other.
00:24:10.93\00:24:14.36
We just yack, yack,
yack, yack, yack got
00:24:14.80\00:24:16.66
this little debate going
on. Got that little controversy
00:24:16.66\00:24:18.66
going on, yack, yack,
yack, yack, yack, where
00:24:18.66\00:24:20.90
we are starting
websites to prove our points,
00:24:20.90\00:24:23.10
we are publishing
magazines in my country
00:24:23.10\00:24:24.90
at least to prove our
point, yack, yack, yack,
00:24:24.90\00:24:26.80
yack, yack, and
while we are talking to
00:24:26.80\00:24:28.70
ourselves the young are
falling asleep in church
00:24:28.70\00:24:31.76
where the yawn as
big as that one and are
00:24:31.76\00:24:34.30
falling out, are falling out.
00:24:34.30\00:24:38.00
On the first day of
the week we came together,
00:24:39.76\00:24:41.83
I want to show you that
this is in fact the point.
00:24:41.83\00:24:43.90
And the first day of
the week we came together
00:24:44.16\00:24:45.33
to break bread and
Paul spoke to the people and
00:24:45.33\00:24:47.03
because he intended
to leave the next day he
00:24:47.03\00:24:49.03
kept on talking until midnight.
00:24:49.03\00:24:51.80
Jot this down in
your study guide would you
00:24:51.80\00:24:53.23
please because they've
been handed out to you;
00:24:53.23\00:24:54.80
The Greek world for
"talking" is dialegomai,
00:24:54.80\00:24:57.70
from whence comes our
English word "dialogue,"
00:24:58.10\00:25:00.46
so I know that there
is a little bit of a Q&A
00:25:00.96\00:25:02.60
going on, back and
forth dialogue, dialogue,
00:25:02.60\00:25:04.73
while the church
is dialoguing back and
00:25:04.73\00:25:06.96
forth, back and
forth, a young adult falls
00:25:06.96\00:25:09.93
out and is dead.
Collective conversation
00:25:09.93\00:25:15.30
between the
speaker and the audience.
00:25:15.30\00:25:17.36
While the church was
talking, Eutychus falls
00:25:17.36\00:25:21.90
asleep. And falls
out of that window.
00:25:21.90\00:25:26.30
Why is it? That
rather than become consumed
00:25:31.26\00:25:36.13
with the mission of
the church. We become
00:25:36.53\00:25:39.40
impassioned, we're
making sure we talk to
00:25:39.40\00:25:42.90
each other. Why do
we spend so much energy
00:25:42.90\00:25:46.83
consumed on
ourselves when the world and
00:25:47.56\00:25:50.40
Sydney are dying all around us.
00:25:50.40\00:25:53.66
It just doesn't make
sense. I tell you what's
00:25:54.10\00:25:57.46
troubling though is
that while the church that
00:25:57.46\00:26:00.80
I love is dialoguing,
the young are falling away.
00:26:00.80\00:26:07.20
Let me share some
astounding statistics with you.
00:26:09.66\00:26:12.50
Allen Martin, who
teaches at our, in fact
00:26:13.20\00:26:15.46
you need to fill this
in, I've been making the
00:26:15.46\00:26:17.66
point, but I forget
to put the slide up.
00:26:17.66\00:26:19.36
Fill it in your study
guide, while the church
00:26:19.86\00:26:21.50
was talking to themselves
the young adult dropped out.
00:26:21.50\00:26:23.90
Allen Martin, who
teaches in our theological
00:26:25.30\00:26:27.30
seminary at Andrews
University and I pastor
00:26:27.30\00:26:29.33
on that campus. Wrote
an article in Ministry
00:26:29.33\00:26:33.00
Magazine a few
months ago and I want you to
00:26:33.00\00:26:35.70
know this is North America,
these are North American
00:26:35.70\00:26:37.66
statistics, I don't
know what the Australian
00:26:37.66\00:26:39.30
statistics are and we
had the conference secretary
00:26:39.30\00:26:41.70
here a moment ago and
I didn't check ahead of
00:26:41.70\00:26:44.33
time, but I have a
feeling they may not be
00:26:44.33\00:26:46.26
so different. Let me
just give you a few, a few
00:26:46.26\00:26:48.50
statistics. Jot
these down please;
00:26:48.50\00:26:50.26
The median age
for North American
00:26:50.26\00:26:52.56
Seventh-day
Adventists is 58, 58 the median
00:26:52.83\00:26:59.00
age, half of the
Adventist church is above 58 in
00:26:59.00\00:27:02.00
North America, half
is below, but look how
00:27:02.00\00:27:05.76
high that median age
is, do you know what it is
00:27:05.76\00:27:07.73
for Canada, for the
U.S. and Canada, for the
00:27:07.73\00:27:10.23
U.S. it's 36 and
for Canada it's 37.
00:27:10.23\00:27:12.63
The median age of
those two nations on the
00:27:12.63\00:27:15.50
continent of North
America, 36 and 37,
00:27:15.50\00:27:18.23
the Adventist
church is 21 years older.
00:27:18.23\00:27:22.00
Listen to this
more than 1000 Adventist
00:27:23.66\00:27:26.80
congregations out of a
total of 5,500 in North
00:27:26.80\00:27:30.33
America have no
children or teens at all.
00:27:30.33\00:27:34.56
And I know that's
not only in North America
00:27:35.00\00:27:36.90
because I had one of
you come up to me and
00:27:36.90\00:27:38.40
tell me do you know
some of these kids are
00:27:38.40\00:27:39.70
going back to
churches, where there is nobody,
00:27:39.70\00:27:41.63
nobody, isn't that
something. Roger Dudley, who is
00:27:42.83\00:27:49.86
the head of the church
ministry institute and is
00:27:49.86\00:27:52.03
a demographer, he
surveys the church in
00:27:52.03\00:27:55.10
North America in particular
has determined he wrote
00:27:55.10\00:27:57.50
an epic, a seminar a
bit of research called why
00:27:58.13\00:28:01.80
teenagers are
leaving the church.
00:28:01.80\00:28:03.13
This is probably the
most significant longitudinal
00:28:04.83\00:28:07.46
study ever
undertaken by any community of
00:28:07.46\00:28:09.63
faith period. It was
done by the Adventists in
00:28:09.63\00:28:12.80
North America, what
they did was they began
00:28:12.80\00:28:14.83
surveying teenagers at
the ages of 15 and 16 alright.
00:28:14.83\00:28:17.86
He started asking them
questions. They started,
00:28:17.86\00:28:20.16
they went back to them
at 17, they went back to
00:28:20.16\00:28:22.20
them at 18 and
they tracked them for 10
00:28:22.20\00:28:23.90
years until the
age of 25 and 26.
00:28:23.90\00:28:25.96
They tracked them
for 10 years and based on
00:28:25.96\00:28:28.60
those numbers and
he wrote a fascinating
00:28:28.60\00:28:30.63
book, get it your A,
B, C why teenagers reject
00:28:30.63\00:28:32.93
religion. Based on
those numbers here is
00:28:32.93\00:28:37.10
Dudley's conclusion.
It seems reasonable to
00:28:37.10\00:28:39.70
believe that at
least 40 to 50 percent of
00:28:39.70\00:28:45.06
Seventh-Day
Adventist teenagers, isn't that
00:28:45.06\00:28:49.53
something, are
essentially leaving the church
00:28:49.53\00:28:52.23
by their middle
twenties. Man, Oh! Man, Oh! Man.
00:28:52.63\00:28:59.06
I know that the
AYC present company
00:28:59.56\00:29:02.20
accepted, but right
now we're thinking church.
00:29:02.20\00:29:04.56
This is a church
you're a part of and this is a
00:29:05.46\00:29:07.30
church I'm a part of.
If we don't start some of
00:29:07.30\00:29:10.96
these SOS groups,
have you been hearing about
00:29:10.96\00:29:12.83
these SOS groups?
What is the SOS stand for.
00:29:12.83\00:29:17.83
Share our
Savior. Share our Savior.
00:29:18.96\00:29:20.80
Share our Savior,
small groups similar to care
00:29:22.20\00:29:26.36
groups from the gateway model.
00:29:26.36\00:29:28.16
If we don't start
these SOS groups and start
00:29:29.20\00:29:31.76
bringing our young
into groups, where there is
00:29:31.76\00:29:34.30
community and accountability
and loving commitment.
00:29:34.30\00:29:38.00
If we don't start
pulling them into something
00:29:38.00\00:29:40.40
smaller then just
Sabbath morning we are doomed.
00:29:40.40\00:29:43.20
40 to 50 percent of
them, I bet it's the same in
00:29:44.23\00:29:46.86
Australia 40 to 50
percent of Australian young are
00:29:46.86\00:29:50.03
saying adios to the
church. How many former
00:29:50.03\00:29:53.63
Adventists young do
you have in Sydney alone?
00:29:53.63\00:29:56.63
Mercy, that's the
West, that's the young, while
00:29:58.33\00:30:03.33
the church is caught
up talking to each other,
00:30:03.33\00:30:06.16
yack, yack, yack,
yack, yack, yack, yack,
00:30:06.16\00:30:08.40
they're falling out
by the buckets full.
00:30:08.40\00:30:10.83
40 to 50 percent
I've heard some numbers as
00:30:12.36\00:30:14.93
high as 70% are not coming back.
00:30:14.93\00:30:17.43
Present company accepted
and I'm grateful for the
00:30:18.76\00:30:21.33
exception, but we can't
sleep, we can't just say,
00:30:21.33\00:30:25.63
Oh! Well it is not
our problem, we're AYC,
00:30:25.63\00:30:27.76
we got it together,
yeah you are AYC and yes
00:30:27.76\00:30:30.73
by the grace of the
Lord Jesus Christ you may
00:30:30.73\00:30:33.03
have it together.
But, you have a mission for
00:30:33.03\00:30:35.70
the young who are in
the church too, not just
00:30:35.70\00:30:37.70
the young outside of
the church you have a
00:30:37.70\00:30:39.26
mission to the
young in the church.
00:30:39.26\00:30:40.60
You're gonna have to
start pulling them into
00:30:40.60\00:30:42.26
your circles and
we can't wait every 12
00:30:42.26\00:30:44.20
months till another
big conference comes to
00:30:44.20\00:30:46.10
Melbourne or
Sydney. You're gonna have to
00:30:46.10\00:30:47.80
pull them in. In
the 12 months in between
00:30:47.80\00:30:51.10
that's why those SOS
groups are strategic,
00:30:51.63\00:30:53.80
pull the young in,
he's fallen asleep he is
00:30:54.06\00:30:57.23
gonna hit his head, he
is gonna, she is gonna lose
00:30:57.23\00:30:59.70
her heart and be
dead spiritually.
00:30:59.70\00:31:01.90
Pull her in, pull him
in. You know what, when
00:31:01.90\00:31:07.30
we stand before God
one day, listen to me
00:31:07.30\00:31:09.30
very carefully
now 'cause I may be
00:31:09.30\00:31:12.10
misunderstood in a
gathering like this one.
00:31:12.10\00:31:14.00
When we stand before
God one day, the first
00:31:14.86\00:31:18.70
question, he is not
gonna ask us is what
00:31:18.70\00:31:22.00
did you do for all
the children out there.
00:31:22.00\00:31:24.66
He is gonna say,
I gave you a family.
00:31:26.43\00:31:29.13
What did you do with
the children you had.
00:31:30.36\00:31:33.20
So, passionate about
children in the Unis and
00:31:34.00\00:31:37.63
you are losing the
children in your church.
00:31:37.63\00:31:39.83
Now I understand that
the strategy here is to
00:31:40.20\00:31:43.26
keep the children in
the church from being lost
00:31:43.26\00:31:46.10
and I praise God. But,
don't forget SOS has to
00:31:46.10\00:31:50.33
include the young in the
church or they'll fall out
00:31:50.33\00:31:52.13
of that window. Now
go out the back door and
00:31:52.13\00:31:54.20
it's goodbye,
alright. You know some of the,
00:31:54.20\00:31:57.40
I know what some of
the older people are
00:31:57.40\00:31:58.50
saying well you
know what Dwight, this is
00:31:58.50\00:31:59.80
really, this is just
that the, this is the anomaly
00:31:59.80\00:32:01.86
of being young, it
was that way when we were
00:32:01.86\00:32:03.60
young, the young
just aren't involved, they
00:32:03.60\00:32:05.66
don't care, they're
just doing their own thing,
00:32:05.66\00:32:08.33
pleasing themselves.
Oh! My friend you are
00:32:08.33\00:32:10.90
so wrong at this
moment in human history,
00:32:10.90\00:32:13.13
because I come from
a country, where the
00:32:13.13\00:32:15.30
young change the
political landscape in
00:32:15.30\00:32:18.13
the election of a
man named Barack Obama.
00:32:18.13\00:32:20.50
He made it to the
highest office in the
00:32:21.93\00:32:23.76
land because he
mobilized a generation
00:32:23.76\00:32:26.33
of young, harnessed
their passion, harnessed
00:32:26.33\00:32:29.90
their enthusiasm
and they went to work by
00:32:29.90\00:32:32.73
the thousands for
him. Text messaging their
00:32:32.73\00:32:36.90
friends, as passionate
as you were about Jesus,
00:32:36.90\00:32:40.10
they were about Barack Obama.
00:32:40.10\00:32:41.86
Political moment,
don't you tell me the young
00:32:43.30\00:32:45.40
are not mobilizable,
they're already mobilized.
00:32:45.40\00:32:48.96
Don't you think there
is a God in heaven that
00:32:49.66\00:32:50.90
looks down on this
movement of young in
00:32:50.90\00:32:53.06
politics and says if
only that could be my
00:32:53.06\00:32:56.80
church. So, don't tell
me it can't happen to the
00:32:56.80\00:33:00.06
young, it can
happen to the young.
00:33:00.06\00:33:01.23
Alright, there are two
messages in this story,
00:33:01.23\00:33:02.90
message number one is
to the church and then
00:33:04.10\00:33:07.23
message number two
is to the young and
00:33:07.23\00:33:08.73
I wanna give this
message to you, who
00:33:08.73\00:33:10.50
are young. What's
the message to the young
00:33:10.50\00:33:13.43
"wake up, wake
up," you can't make an
00:33:14.23\00:33:18.43
excuse, the preacher
is long winded and church
00:33:18.43\00:33:21.56
is boring, so I'm
falling asleep in church that
00:33:21.56\00:33:24.26
doesn't cut it. You
are responsible for your
00:33:24.26\00:33:27.06
own life. Wake up,
your generation is being
00:33:27.06\00:33:31.50
called by God right
now. I want to share with you
00:33:31.50\00:33:34.10
some astounding
parallels between the young and
00:33:34.96\00:33:37.70
AYC today and the
young at Pentecost I.
00:33:37.70\00:33:46.36
This is why I'm so
excited, this way I'm
00:33:46.76\00:33:47.96
pastoring on a
campus with 3,500 young
00:33:48.76\00:33:51.10
adults, why? Because
I believe that's the key
00:33:51.10\00:33:54.13
the God's finished
word, it's the mobilization of
00:33:54.13\00:33:56.66
the young. Let me share
this with you, look what
00:33:56.66\00:33:59.30
was happening, okay
here, here we are down
00:33:59.30\00:34:01.13
at the pulpit, that's
where, that's where we
00:34:01.13\00:34:02.73
are today, this is
right down here in Acts
00:34:02.73\00:34:04.73
chapter 1 and 2. Look
at what, Pentecost I, the
00:34:04.73\00:34:08.03
financial
conditions, the economy with
00:34:08.03\00:34:09.66
Pentecost I, lets do
this. This is a historian
00:34:09.66\00:34:13.00
Philip A. Harland,
University of Toronto,
00:34:13.00\00:34:15.16
a Canadian. Here
he goes; In that first
00:34:15.16\00:34:17.36
century AD more
and more of the land in
00:34:17.36\00:34:19.10
Palestine became
concentrated into the
00:34:19.10\00:34:21.23
hands of fewer
large landowners at the
00:34:21.23\00:34:24.40
expense of the peasants.
So, the rich are getting
00:34:24.40\00:34:27.13
richer and the poor are
getting poorer, does that
00:34:27.13\00:34:29.93
sound familiar. The
forfeiture of land due to
00:34:29.93\00:34:35.03
indebtedness, Australian
debt personal debt now
00:34:35.03\00:34:39.03
is at the highest it
has ever been in human
00:34:39.03\00:34:41.10
history and guess
what, it's even worse in the
00:34:41.10\00:34:43.63
United States. We
are so in hack, we are in
00:34:43.63\00:34:47.66
hack in debt above our
eyeballs, we will never
00:34:47.66\00:34:51.53
get out of debt as a
nation. The forfeiture of land
00:34:51.53\00:34:56.66
due to indebtedness at
the time of Pentecost I
00:34:56.66\00:34:59.50
back there, the
forfeiture of land due to
00:34:59.50\00:35:01.10
indebtedness was a
main cause of peasants
00:35:01.10\00:35:02.96
losing their land.
We are having 10,000
00:35:02.96\00:35:05.26
houses foreclosed a
day. 10,000 a day, gone bank
00:35:05.26\00:35:10.63
takes it back. Gone
bank takes, I can't pay,
00:35:10.63\00:35:13.03
I can't make the payment.
This house is worth less
00:35:13.23\00:35:15.36
now than the loan
is, why would I keep
00:35:15.36\00:35:17.63
taking, they're
walking away, foreclosed.
00:35:17.63\00:35:19.96
Could it be that the
he economic meltdown we
00:35:22.90\00:35:25.86
are experiencing in
Australia and the US
00:35:25.86\00:35:28.73
and the West and the
East, don't let China
00:35:28.73\00:35:31.43
fool you. China is
not immune from this
00:35:31.43\00:35:35.00
economic meltdown.
As the world goes China
00:35:35.00\00:35:38.80
will go. We are
all in this together.
00:35:38.80\00:35:41.90
Look at the
similarity, economic meltdown
00:35:43.53\00:35:45.56
Pentecost I, we
are going through
00:35:45.56\00:35:46.90
meltdown Pentecost II.
Look at the similarities
00:35:46.90\00:35:50.30
with who is in the
upper room there and who is
00:35:50.30\00:35:52.30
at AYC today, watch
this, jot these down will you.
00:35:52.30\00:35:54.70
Just like those in
the upper room, just like
00:35:54.90\00:35:56.93
Eutychus, you also
are devoted followers of
00:35:56.93\00:36:00.46
Jesus Christ praise
God. You have given your
00:36:00.46\00:36:04.60
life to the Lord
Jesus, you have followed him
00:36:04.60\00:36:06.80
in baptism and if you
have not given your life
00:36:06.80\00:36:08.66
to the Lord Jesus
and you have not followed
00:36:08.66\00:36:10.53
him in baptism, in
just a few moments I'm gonna
00:36:10.53\00:36:12.70
give you an opportunity
to decide today is the
00:36:12.70\00:36:14.60
day I'm deciding to be baptized,
00:36:14.60\00:36:16.36
I will follow
Jesus. You will be baptized
00:36:16.36\00:36:18.40
today, you will
be baptized tomorrow.
00:36:18.40\00:36:19.90
I don't know when
you'll be baptized, but
00:36:19.90\00:36:21.43
today will be the day
you make your decision
00:36:21.43\00:36:23.66
by the grace of God.
You are followers just
00:36:24.00\00:36:26.80
like the upper room of
120. You are also devoted
00:36:26.80\00:36:29.50
followers of Jesus
Christ, guess what just like
00:36:29.50\00:36:31.60
them you were also
relatively poor, aren't you?
00:36:31.60\00:36:35.33
You look rich, but
I know you're poor.
00:36:36.43\00:36:38.10
Isn't true, the young
today are poor, come on.
00:36:39.00\00:36:41.73
It's their baby
boomer parents that have
00:36:42.36\00:36:45.23
accumulated the
possessions of this life.
00:36:45.23\00:36:47.50
Just like them you are
also relatively poor and
00:36:48.60\00:36:51.36
dominantly landless.
How many young adults
00:36:51.36\00:36:53.43
here own property,
don't put your hand up
00:36:53.43\00:36:55.36
because nobody does.
Nobody owns property,
00:36:55.36\00:36:58.03
you're landless just like
the 120 in the upper room.
00:36:58.70\00:37:01.40
Just like them, you
are also Sabbatarian, look
00:37:01.96\00:37:04.60
at that. You
worship the creator on his
00:37:04.60\00:37:06.93
Seventh-Day Sabbath
and you are also little
00:37:06.93\00:37:09.73
a Adventist, they
were little a Adventist.
00:37:09.73\00:37:12.33
They believe passionately
that Jesus is coming soon.
00:37:12.56\00:37:16.16
That's what ignited that moment.
00:37:17.30\00:37:18.83
Pentecost I, that's
what ignites Pentecost II.
00:37:18.83\00:37:21.56
Just like them, you
are also without roots, and
00:37:24.20\00:37:28.70
thus perfectly positioned
to be instantly mobilized
00:37:28.70\00:37:32.66
by the Holy Spirit.
I want to talk to the
00:37:32.66\00:37:34.73
baby boomers, who are
here because some of us
00:37:34.73\00:37:36.56
are baby boomers and
we are not apologizing
00:37:36.56\00:37:38.33
for it, we had no
choice we just did.
00:37:38.33\00:37:40.06
There is nothing we
can do about it, but we are
00:37:41.46\00:37:42.86
baby boomers, so come
on be honest baby boomers.
00:37:42.86\00:37:44.96
We have dropped our
roots pretty deep into
00:37:46.96\00:37:49.33
this life, haven't we?
I mean we're working on
00:37:49.33\00:37:52.70
distal accumulation,
we have that accumulation,
00:37:52.70\00:37:54.80
we have this, we
have that, we have so much
00:37:54.80\00:37:57.90
now that if Jesus
came to us and said I want
00:37:57.90\00:38:00.26
you to move for me
now, we have to say
00:38:00.26\00:38:02.93
I can't, I got all
this. I got a good job now,
00:38:03.20\00:38:08.56
you can't ask me to do
this. And so he doesn't, most
00:38:08.56\00:38:12.90
of the time, but
unlike your parents you are
00:38:12.90\00:38:18.06
also like the 120 in
the upper room, you have
00:38:18.06\00:38:20.96
no roots and thus you
are perfectly positioned
00:38:20.96\00:38:23.40
to be instantly
mobilized by the Holy Spirit.
00:38:23.40\00:38:27.73
You know what, all
you need is a mobile,
00:38:28.23\00:38:31.30
a laptop and a
plane ticket, you can go
00:38:32.13\00:38:34.23
anywhere on earth.
You are the most traveled
00:38:34.23\00:38:35.76
generation in the
history of the human raise.
00:38:35.76\00:38:37.33
Nobody's traveled
like you, I have never seen
00:38:37.63\00:38:39.10
guys like you, just go
up to the plane counter
00:38:39.10\00:38:40.83
and put 300 bucks,
I'll take that ticket,
00:38:40.83\00:38:43.10
I'm going to Fiji,
boom you're gone to Fiji.
00:38:43.10\00:38:45.20
What's up with that,
you just travel, it's a
00:38:45.83\00:38:49.26
part of your DNA.
You've been set up
00:38:49.26\00:38:52.16
because they were the
same way, you have been
00:38:52.16\00:38:54.20
set up to become
Pentecost II, you have
00:38:54.20\00:38:56.90
every thing Pentecost
II needs if you have the
00:38:56.90\00:38:59.96
infilling of the mighty
third person of the God,
00:38:59.96\00:39:02.40
the Holy Spirit. Amen.
You got it all, we are not
00:39:02.40\00:39:06.10
waiting for another
generation, baby boomers
00:39:06.10\00:39:08.30
are slowly fainting
off the scene, it's the why
00:39:08.30\00:39:10.63
you call yourself
generation, why here we call you
00:39:11.00\00:39:13.00
Millennials in the United
States, it's this generation.
00:39:13.00\00:39:15.73
That is now positioned
strategically by God to
00:39:16.96\00:39:19.70
be instantly
mobilized. Oh! My, look at that,
00:39:19.70\00:39:23.66
you've got a mobile, you have a
00:39:24.30\00:39:27.06
plane ticket,
and you got a laptop.
00:39:27.06\00:39:28.90
Oh! Did you see that,
I'll do it again, alright.
00:39:32.40\00:39:36.63
Because you were
probably sleeping in the
00:39:37.33\00:39:38.96
window, watch it this
time. Look at this isn't that
00:39:38.96\00:39:41.66
something. Oh! How
do you. I had some young
00:39:41.66\00:39:49.40
adults put that
together. I don't know how to do
00:39:49.40\00:39:52.10
that, I don't know
what you do, but anyway
00:39:52.10\00:39:55.50
that's who you are.
All God needs is a handful
00:39:55.50\00:39:59.26
of you. He doesn't
need 500 of you, Hallelujah
00:39:59.26\00:40:02.43
for 500. He
doesn't need a 1000 of you,
00:40:02.43\00:40:04.53
he needs just a handful of you.
00:40:05.03\00:40:06.36
He got by with 12
minus 1 plus a few others
00:40:06.36\00:40:09.43
thrown into an upper
room, 120, he turn the
00:40:09.43\00:40:11.46
world upside down
with a 120. Small numbers
00:40:11.46\00:40:14.90
have ever chanced the
landscape of the human raise.
00:40:14.90\00:40:17.26
Watch this Margaret
Mead, the great anthropologist.
00:40:17.26\00:40:19.83
Margaret Mead she
wrote; Never underestimate
00:40:20.46\00:40:24.26
the ability of a
small SOS group, that's what
00:40:24.26\00:40:30.10
she meant. Never
underestimate the
00:40:30.10\00:40:33.70
ability of a small
care group of committed
00:40:33.70\00:40:38.23
individuals to change
the world. It takes only
00:40:38.23\00:40:41.93
one group of you to
change the human race.
00:40:41.93\00:40:46.10
Never underestimate
the power of one small
00:40:47.73\00:40:51.53
handful of young
adults devoted to the Lord
00:40:51.53\00:40:54.86
Jesus Christ, it's all
it takes to the change the
00:40:54.86\00:40:57.96
world. Indeed, they are
the only, write that in,
00:40:57.96\00:41:01.03
they are the only
ones who have ever changed
00:41:01.03\00:41:04.03
the earth. Name me a
massive body of people
00:41:04.03\00:41:07.06
that's changed human
history, name me one.
00:41:07.06\00:41:09.00
History has been
changed by handfuls, set ablaze
00:41:10.60\00:41:15.13
with their passion.
You have a passion for
00:41:15.13\00:41:18.20
Jesus, do you? You
love him with all your heart
00:41:18.20\00:41:21.53
I know you do.
My friend, you are
00:41:21.53\00:41:24.50
positioned for God
to begin Pentecost II,
00:41:24.50\00:41:29.40
that's why Ellen
White wrote unequivocal
00:41:30.00\00:41:32.46
language exactly
what Margaret Mead will
00:41:32.46\00:41:34.93
say, Ellen White
wrote this; With such an
00:41:34.93\00:41:37.26
army, jot it down;
With such an army of
00:41:37.26\00:41:40.40
workers as our youth,
rightly trained, you see
00:41:40.40\00:41:44.03
AYC is about
that rightly trained.
00:41:44.03\00:41:46.43
You don't, you
don't, you don't just go
00:41:47.83\00:41:49.03
marching off. No
soldiers just goes
00:41:49.03\00:41:50.90
marching off clothe,
with half of his ammunition,
00:41:50.90\00:41:53.60
out of gear, you got to
get trained first then we
00:41:54.50\00:41:58.33
put you in a band.
So, that you are never
00:41:58.33\00:42:01.70
alone, you're not
afraid, you have the almighty
00:42:01.70\00:42:06.53
God with you, but you
have, you have mates with you.
00:42:06.53\00:42:10.36
With such an army of
workers as our young,
00:42:11.96\00:42:14.33
rightly trained
might furnish, how soon,
00:42:14.33\00:42:18.16
I believe the secret
to the soon coming of
00:42:18.93\00:42:20.70
Jesus is right here.
How soon the message of a
00:42:20.70\00:42:26.56
crucified, risen,
and soon-coming Savior
00:42:26.56\00:42:28.40
might be carried to
the entire city of the
00:42:28.40\00:42:31.13
Sydney, Melbourne,
and Perth, Adelaide,
00:42:31.13\00:42:38.00
Canberra, and I met
some from New Castle,
00:42:40.93\00:42:44.63
Cairns. How soon,
how soon the message of a
00:42:46.60\00:42:51.20
crucified, risen,
and soon-coming Savior
00:42:51.20\00:42:52.83
might be carried to
the whole world! How soon
00:42:53.30\00:42:55.70
might the end come, the
end of suffering and sin,
00:42:55.70\00:43:00.33
suffering, sorrow and
sin! So, here is the question,
00:43:01.50\00:43:05.26
I want to end with
this question, are you
00:43:06.00\00:43:08.33
willing, are you
willing to follow Jesus out into
00:43:08.33\00:43:14.83
that world and reach it
as his last Pentecost II
00:43:14.83\00:43:22.46
generation, are you
willing? Would you be
00:43:22.70\00:43:26.20
willing if Jesus were
standing here today and
00:43:26.20\00:43:29.90
I would love to be
there, right there on that
00:43:29.90\00:43:32.00
front row, if Jesus
were standing here today and
00:43:32.00\00:43:34.73
he says alright guys
let's just cut to this chase.
00:43:34.73\00:43:37.90
I have an invitation
for you and I need to know
00:43:38.43\00:43:40.73
who will go for
me, would you, would I,
00:43:40.73\00:43:45.36
jump to my feet with
the cry, here am I, send
00:43:46.00\00:43:50.30
me, send me. I don't
care where you send me,
00:43:50.30\00:43:52.70
if you want me to
go Jesus I know you are
00:43:52.96\00:43:55.36
with me always even to at
the end of the age, send me.
00:43:55.36\00:43:58.06
Are you willing to
be send today? Are you?
00:43:59.63\00:44:02.70
want to pray with you
right now and then I'm
00:44:05.00\00:44:06.76
gonna pull out a
card that you have on your
00:44:06.76\00:44:08.70
lap and I want you
to prayerfully consider
00:44:08.70\00:44:10.83
that card. Let's
pray together, Oh! God, if
00:44:10.83\00:44:13.76
only Jesus were here,
he is through his spirit,
00:44:13.76\00:44:17.66
if he were here
in person and we were
00:44:18.40\00:44:20.40
sitting at his feet, his
nails scarred feet and he
00:44:20.40\00:44:24.20
said you know my
eyes have swept over this
00:44:24.20\00:44:27.86
great nation, I
need more in my army.
00:44:27.86\00:44:31.30
The Messiah's army
needs new recruits.
00:44:32.10\00:44:34.70
Would you, who are
here AYC, would you
00:44:34.96\00:44:38.40
give me your life this
year? Would you go for me?
00:44:38.40\00:44:43.03
O Father, would
we have the courage,
00:44:45.10\00:44:48.83
oh! But of course
we would, we would jump
00:44:51.90\00:44:53.90
to our feet and we would
say Jesus starting right now.
00:44:53.90\00:44:58.00
Here am I send me.
Well, he is not here
00:44:59.06\00:45:02.70
Father, his spirit
is hovering over us, his
00:45:02.70\00:45:05.73
spirit is speaking to
our hearts and I pray that as
00:45:05.73\00:45:08.03
we look at this
humble little card that you
00:45:08.03\00:45:10.90
might impress us with
what your will for us is
00:45:10.90\00:45:14.73
in 2010 not a 11, not
9, this year the only year
00:45:14.73\00:45:20.10
you've given to us is
this year, what do you
00:45:20.10\00:45:23.03
want us to do, what
would Jesus have us say.
00:45:23.03\00:45:26.13
How should we respond,
God for the mighty third
00:45:26.90\00:45:29.80
person who guided
through our consciousness speak
00:45:29.80\00:45:32.63
right now. We pray
in Christ name, Amen.
00:45:32.63\00:45:36.40